Vol. 2 No. 2 (2016): EFEK JANGKA PANJANG KEBIJAKAN TERHADAP KONDISI SOSIOKULTURAL MASYARAKAT: STUDI KASUS KOMUNITAS TIONGHOA PONDOK CINA, DEPOK

As an implementation of ideas of development, every policy is surely expected to have desirable long term effect. However, some policies resulted in unintended effects which were realized after a long period of being put in effect. These unintended effects may become potential to disturb state defense whenever critical conditions come. The most obvious case to study this problem is Indonesian ethnic Chinese’s experience during the course of history. Since colonial era until post-Reformation 1998 period, this social group has been subjected to several policies. Especially during New Order’s ruling, those policies tended to be discriminative against ethnic Chinese. Its long term effect became obviously apparent when ethnic Chinese turned to be victim of pillaging and raping during some riots in 1998. This study uses ethnography as its research method, complemented by historical approach. It aims to discuss the long term effect of policies to the sociocultural construction of Indonesian ethnic Chinese. Through this discussion, it is expected that we can draw some lesson learned to formulate and implement policies which have more sensitivity to actual condition of society.